Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Giraldo

Jesse has opened for me extensively on the road so I’ve seen him do hundreds of sets. He is always super funny, has tons of material and the crowds love him. Bottom line, Jesse Joyce is a great comedian.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

Stephen Merchant

When I was a teenager, I met a comedian who I admired, and he was very rude to me. That's why when people come up to me I try not to be rude. I don't want to name who he is, but it really put me off watching his stuff since.

Harvey Pekar

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing

I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.

Sean Berdy

I'm a comedian in real life. I always goof around; I'm out-going; and I talk with everybody, especially through Twitter these days!

Mike Birbiglia

I'm a comedian, and the other comedians are played by comedians, the same way that in 'Once' there are the musicians that hang out together.

For one year, Davis continued to have discussions directly with actors and comedians regarding signing with Davis to produce and perform his screenplay, ... offered funding through an investor to produce the screenplay for video distribution.

Jimmy Wales

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

Tom Green

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

Nick Kroll

Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.

Elayne Boosler

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

John Cleese

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

Gene Wilder

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

Emo Philips

Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate" 'til the day I die.

Simon Pegg

Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming from that experience. I know that's a slightly heightened example, but it's the same thing. We're bumpkins, so we can make bumpkin jokes.

Simon Doonan

Architects are the new comedians.

Sean William Scott

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

Liam Neeson

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

Lenny Bruce

I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.

Lenny Bruce

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.

Shelley Berman

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

Shelley Berman

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

Shelley Berman

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

Larry David

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Pauly Shore

You have to go away to come back. That's just normal. That's with bands, actors, comedians, everything.

Peter Sarsgaard

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

Kevin Hart

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

Henry Rollins

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.

Morgan Freeman

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

Tatiana Maslany

For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

Peter Baynham

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

Penn Jillette

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.